UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Chronological age and oocyte yield are independent determinants of live birth in assisted conception. Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is strongly associated with oocyte yield after controlled ovarian stimulation. We have previously assessed the ability of AMH and age to independently predict live birth in an Italian assisted conception cohort. Herein we report the external...

Variation in the number, total weight, mean individual weight and minimum individual weight of live pups at first and second litter were studied in hemiovariectomized (H = 54 does) and normal (N = 55 does) rabbit does. The total number of implanted embryos in 25 unoperated (N) and 54 hemiovariectomized (H) does were recorded by laparoscopy on the 12th day of their second pregnancy. The total nu...

This retrospective study determined the efficacy of ovarian stimulation for IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in poor ovarian responders fulfilling the Bologna criteria for poor ovarian response and identified predictors of live birth rates. Overall, 485 patients undergoing 823 ovarian stimulation cycles for IVF/ICSI with maximum gonadotrophin dose (≥ 300 IU) between January 2009 and ...

Rates of infant death are one of the most common indicators of a population's overall health status. Infant mortality rates (IMRs) are used to make broad inferences about the quality of health care, effects of health policies and even environmental quality. The purpose of our study was threefold: i) to examine the characteristics of births in the area in relation to gestational age and birthwei...

BACKGROUND Season of birth has been reported to affect later reproduction in samples of pre-modern women and contemporary men. METHODS To examine whether the effect of birth date is also valid in contemporary women, we investigated the association between birth month and measures of reproductive performance (number of live-born children, % childless individuals) in a representative sample of ...

humanembryo is the honorable extant. according to islamic sources such as: quran, tradition, ijma and wisdom,destroyingembryosasthe first verdict is prohibited.in this research, was conducted with descriptiveand analyticalmethods this question wasstudied thatif genetic abnormalitiesexist in the fetusso that medicallyto live pregnant impossibl eafter the birth and cause threatenfor live of mothe...

Background In recent years, concerns have been raised about human reproductive disorders. Caffeine consumption is increasing by the world’s population and there is a relationship between caffeine intake and adverse reproductive outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of caffeine on implantation sites, number of live births, birth weight, crown-rump length (CRL) and abnormali...

in a survey of the population of behbahan city, carried out in years 1990-91, the mean age was approximated up to 15.2 and 17.5 in the villages and the city, respectively. furthermore, about 27.4% and 27.9% of the corresponding populations were under 5 years of age. the birth rate in the urban and rural areas was about 31.2 and 33.3 per thousand live births. mortality rate related to the immatu...

Investigations of secular changes in the live-birth sex ratios of different countries have given conflicting results (Gini, 1908; Russell, 1936; Ciocco, 1938; Strandskov, 1942; Martin, 1943). In general the data are unsatisfactory, either because numbers of births are small, or because of inaccuracies and deficiencies in birth notification. Russell (1936) examined statistics for England and Wal...